Speakers to be announced.

If you wish to speak at the conference, please submit your abstract before 31 July 2024 23.59 hours (CEST).

The conference will focus on two main areas of interest:

Blood donation

• Donor selection: new challenges and risk-based approach
• Blood donor recruitment and retention
• Challenges for blood supply in Europe
• Blood collection
• Testing: from phenotype testing to genomics

Blood components

• Innovative and novel blood components / blood component preparations 
• Innovation and involvement of users in development of novel blood components
• Process changes implementation, risk-based approach
• EDQM Blood Guide monographs for innovative and novel blood components
• Novel component development and clinical outcome monitoring

A detailed scientific programme of the conference will be released soon.